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Sonja Sharp

Reporter/Producer @sovietsonja Contact

Sonja Sharp is a reporter/producer for DNAinfo.

Before joining DNAinfo, Sonja ran a hyperlocal news site in the working-class suburbs of Oakland, Calif., where she produced investigative series while hanging out with ex-gang-banger urban farmers and pregnant 14-year-olds.

Sonja got her start in journalism covering crime for U.C. Berkeley’s award-winning Daily Californian. She moved to New York City after graduating with a degree in History and Spanish Literature in 2008, reporting Brooklyn for the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and Queens for the Daily News. Her stories of kibbitzing with Yiddish-speaking hipsters, poring over Nigerian gossip rags in Queens, braving toilets at JFK’s Central Taxi Hold and downing shots of 192-proof liquor with Lubavitchers in Brooklyn have also appeared in the New York Times, the New York Post, the Huffington Post and Mother Jones magazine.

Sonja lives with her husband, a mad scientist and entrepreneur, in Crown Heights.

Fun Fact: While living in a commune in Berkeley, Sonja rocked coveralls and used a diamond-tipped buzzsaw while making experimental pavement for the California Transportation Authority.

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May 24, 2012

Lightning hit P.S. 167 at 1025 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, knocking bricks from the chimney.

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May 24, 2012

The artisanal ice cream shop in Prospect Heights marks its first year with discount scoops. 

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May 23, 2012

District Attorney Charles Hynes feted 21 exceptional officers at the annual event on Wednesday. 

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May 23, 2012

ESL students celebrated the release of 'Stories That Changed Us Forever' at the Crown Heights Library

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May 22, 2012

Crow Hill Community Garden is expected to be razed this week to make way for new development.

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May 22, 2012

Police in central Brooklyn say they're seeing a spike in iPhone snatches, even as other crimes ebb.

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May 21, 2012

A boy was shot at 298 Utica Ave. at Union Street May 21, 2012, officials said.

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May 18, 2012

Capt. John Lewis rejoined the  71st Precinct  in April, but Crown Heights is familiar territory.